wake up

If 2016 was a wake-up call for those who didn’t realize how much work it would take to keep the country from falling into the hands of to a regressive, fascism-curious regime, there are far fewer people to awaken today.

Earlier this year he warned that “there could be war in Sweden”, although that was seen as a wake-up call because he felt that moves towards rebuilding that “total defence” were progressing too slowly.

A normal wake-up for me is 7 a.m. because we have four dogs who will not let me sleep past 7.

“The news of a deeply serious human case of bird flu is a massive wake-up call that should immediately mobilize efforts to prevent another human pandemic,” said Farm Forward Executive Director Andrew deCoriolis.

The George Floyd protests put police reform on the agenda and served as a wake-up call about the raw, contemporary dangers of structural racism, but except for its transformation into a scary right-wing bedtime story about looters and out-of-control cities, it seems to have sunk back below the surface, leaving only a few cultural ripples behind.